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ArticleBiomedicines2016

Recombinant Poxvirus and the Tumor Microenvironment: Oncolysis, Immune Regulation and Immunization.

Daniel W Sharp, Edmund C Lattime

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Article in Biomedicines, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Innate immune cells in chimeric antigen receptor therapy.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  6. Advances in cancer vaccines for immunotherapy of prostate cancer.Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2023
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  18. Optimizing oncolytic virotherapy in cancer treatment.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel W SharpRutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2681, USA; sharpdw@cinj.rutgers.edu.
Edmund C LattimeRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Department of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-2681, USA.

Funding

TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILINGP30CA072720 · NCI · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI Tracie Saunders · 1997 to 2026
$94.5M
T LEUKEMIAS WITH NATURAL CYTOTOXIC (NC) CELL ACTIVITYR01CA042908 · NCI · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI LATTIME, EDMUND C. · 1987 to 2012
$3.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA072720NCI NIH HHS R01 CA042908
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are being extensively studied for their potential roles in the development of cancer therapy regimens. In addition to their direct lytic effects, OVs can initiate and drive systemic antitumor immunity indirectly via release of tumor antigen, as well as by encoding and delivering immunostimulatory molecules. This combination makes them an effective platform for the development of immunotherapeutic strategies beyond their primary lytic function. Engineering the viruses to also express tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) allows them to simultaneously serve as therapeutic vaccines, targeting and amplifying an immune response to TAAs. Our group and others have shown that vaccinating intratumorally with a poxvirus that encodes TAAs, in addition to immune stimulatory molecules, can modulate the tumor microenvironment, overcome immune inhibitory pathways, and drive both local and systemic tumor specific immune responses.

Indexed as

GM-CSF (granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor)immunotherapyoncolytic virusespoxvirusTRICOM (triad of costimulatory molecules)tumor microenvironmentvaccinia

Identifiers

PMID28191451
PMCPMC5298125

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